Making it cheaper doesn’t change people’s taste, it’s still mostly for the rich, now they’re just getting a subsidy they didn’t need from the taxpayer. If people want to spend their money on art that’s perfectly fine, what I’m objecting to is the taxpayer being obligated to do so.

That a private enterprise wouldn’t be able to make this work should give us a hint that it doesn’t benefit enough people for it to be worthwhile, opera is a luxury good consumed by relatively few, relatively affluent people. Why should the taxpayer subsidize their hobby? Actors don’t need a billion dollar opera house to perform, they could do it in a school auditorium if necessary. Those tax dollars could have been spent on any number of other things like healthcare and education.

I just checked my comment history for the last 2 months and I’m not seeing anything like that. I also checked the modlog on Lemmy.World and this is all I can see. At this point I’m going to have to assume you’re just gaslighting me.

Fine, I’ll bite. Which one?

When the original comment is unserious I don’t think un unserious reply is out of line.

It’s the former. Anyone checking your history would be able to see a pattern of bad faith misinterpretation of other people’s comments, so I’m going to assume that’s what’s going on here, too.

We’re going to keep doing the Genocide Joe thing until Donald Trump has the nuclear codes

Nurse, this man neds 50cc’s of swagger, stat! And go make me a sandwich, because I’ll turn gay if I go into the staff kitchen.

I’m not sure exactly which variety it is, but I’m diagnosing you with derangement syndrome

This guy in the warehouse made a deal with another guy to sell his porn collection. So he brings it in one day in a big cardboard box and leaves it sitting in the coat room with the top open, you could see X-rated stuff just walking by. Someone says something to management and the box gets confiscated, but they don’t know who it belongs to so that’s pretty much the end of it. Until our hero goes and files a complaint about the theft of his property.

Jokes aren’t real, open your eyes sheeple!

Actually the idea that memes should be ‘good’ is a dangerous lie perpeuated by the capitalist cishet white patriarchy. Memes are supposed to be brave and important.

NTA. You are under no obligation to help other people cancel some jeweler who’s probably dead now anyway. Enjoy your ring and fuck the haters.

Making a social network where people can send pictures to each other, then selling it to a big corporation for billions.

Yes, agreed. That doesn’t make it hate speech. You undermine the concept of hate speech when you abuse it like this.

Russia is bad and tells only lies, but this is a pretty egregious twisting of Rule 4

Moonlight, starlight, all night, we’re bombing you

That’s not enough, you need to say the line for us

I’m sure a few thousand Russian tanks also factored into their decision

It could be a bumpy road, but go for it. Remember that no matter what happens, someone else has probably been there before and has asked for help online